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1982 New technology continues to change our buying
habits with smaller and cheaper electronic gadgets appearing including
the first CD player and a new industry is just beginning with the use
of Genetic Engineering human insulin produced by bacteria is sold for
the first time. On the world stage Argentina invades the Falkland Islands
and Argentina and the UK go to war over a small island thousands of miles
away. After many reports of Whales becoming and endangered species the
International Whaling Commission decides to end commercial whaling, and
a major recession hits the United States.

Cost of Living 1982

How Much things cost in 1982
Yearly Inflation Rate USA 6.16 %
Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average 1046
Interest Rates Year End Federal Reserve 11.50%
Average Cost of new house $82,200.00
Average Income per year $21,050.00
Average Monthly Rent $320.00
Cost of a gallon of Gas 91 cents
New Car Average price $7,983.00
US Postage Stamp 20 cents
Vic 20 $299.95
Satellite Receiver $245.95

What Events Happened in 1982

Wave of Terrorist
attacks in France by Carlos the Jackal

All time record lows in dozens of cities
throughout the Midwestern United States.

Argentina invades the Falkland Islands
/ Maldives, and the UK sends the Royal Navy, RAF and the Army and
retakes possession of the Falkland Islands during the conflict the Nuclear
submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano.

HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser
General Belgrano.

Argentine Exocet missile sinks HMS Sheffield

Israeli forces invade Lebanon

Israeli returns Sinai to Egypt

The largest cash robbery in History
occurs in New York when $9,800,000 is stolen from an armored car

The First Issue of USA Today is published

Disney Futuristic Park EPCOT (Experimental
Community Of Tomorrow) is opened

The Provisional IRA continues it's
bombing campaign in London and Mainland Britain

Around 700,000 demonstrators gathered in New
York City's Central Park protesting the proliferation of nuclear
weapons.

Michael Fagan Brakes Into The Queens
Bedroom in Buckingham Palace

The International Whaling Commission decides
to end commercial whaling

Tylenol capsules laced with potassium
cyanide kill 7 in Chicago

The Mary Rose, flagship of Henry VIII of England
is raised in the Solent and taken to Portsmouth Dockyard where it is
preserved and on show to the public

Yassar Arafat elected the President
of the Palestinian National Council

Doctors performed the first implant of a permanent
artificial heart designed by Robert Jarvik

Severe recession begins in the United
States.

The world's largest oil rig (The Ocean Ranger)
sinks in the north Atlantic

Italy Wins 1982 World Cup in Spain

Work begins on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
in Washington DC

Earthquake and a volcanic eruption
at El Chichon in southern Mexico kills thousands

Popular Culture 1982

Smileys 1982
was the year a computer scientist (Scott Fahlman) from Carnegie Mellon
University first suggested the use of Smiley or emoticon as a way of
expressing emotion in an email :-

Freeware first used by Andrew Flueleman and
Jim Knopf to distribute their application which allowed programs to
be copied, in 1984 the distribution of this type of software changed
from freeware to Shareware ( name thought up by Bob Wallace

Michael Jackson releases his second adult
solo album, Thriller.

Graceland the home of Elvis Presley
opens to the public

Popular Films

E.T. the Extraterrestrial

Rocky III,

On Golden Pond

Porky's

An Officer and a Gentleman

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Poltergeist

Annie

Chariots of Fire

Gandhi

Popular Musicians

Human League
with "Don't You Want Me"

Bucks Fizz

The Jam

Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder with "Ebony
and Ivory"

Olivia Newton-John

Vangelis

Steve Miller band With " Abracadabra
"

Survivor with " Eye of The Tiger "

Chicago with " Hard to Say I'm Sorry
"

Lionel Richie

Popular TV Programs

Magnum, P.I.

Dynasty

Falcon Crest

Hill Street Blues

Knight Rider

Technology 1982

First CD player
sold in Japan

The Weather
Channel airs on cable television for the first time.

The Soviet Spaceship
Vanera 13 lands on Venus and sends back color Photographs

20 million Elm
Trees die in the UK through Dutch Elm Disease

The First Commercial
use of Genetic Engineering is Launched when human insulin produced by
bacteria is marketed